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Thread #9432   Message #60898
Posted By: Jim Savarino http://songs.com/jims
01-Mar-99 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: Woody Guthrie: source of tunes
Subject: Woody Guthrie
I was just looking at the Lyrics for "This Land is Your Land" and at the end read:

Words and music by Woody Guthrie, copyright 1956 and 1958 by Lidlow Music Inc. Recorded on his Greatest Songs album tune adapted (swiped?) from Carter Family's Rock of Ages RG

Wasn't most of the Carter Family music "swiped" from traditional songs?